Rise of Rurik - Chapter 720

[Chapter 721 Prince’s Arrangement]

Rurik got a full rest in his mansion, and when he woke up again, he had to sigh with emotion that such a good building should change the purpose of existence.

He has already calculated that with the relocation of the political center, Roseburg’s palace, the only three-story attic in the whole city, has the value of being the local administrative center, and it is perfect as the Governor’s Mansion.

He listened to the servant’s report, and understood the demands of those old guys who couldn’t wait to hold the meeting.

Since everyone is in a hurry to hold a meeting, let’s convene it quickly.

“Ross Duma” is a big long house. When Rurik formally gave the order to hold a meeting, the sages from the entire Rose Fort came one after another, almost filling up the empty and ashes-filled house.

The noise of their conversation made it look like a beehive, or a wild bee scene.

Everyone has their own thoughts, and many words they are holding back are eager to tell the prince.

It can be said that Rurik came prepared for this meeting. As early as in Novgorod, he wrote down one arrangement plan after another on hard paper with a quill pen.

In the anticipation of everyone, Rurik walked into the house lit by many oil lamps together with the high priest Rumia.

The appearance of the two of them completely turned the already noisy house into a pot of boiling water.

People cheered, stomped their feet, beat their chests or clapped, making all kinds of noises to vent their excitement.

Such a lively scene, Rurik could only watch them happy for a while with a smile.

The overall slender long room is equipped with a large number of benches, so that if there is a lengthy meeting, the participants can do it leisurely and listen to the speaker.

There are two rows of benches on the left and right, both of which are set against the wooden wall, and there is a central podium inside, where Rurik will preach.

Designing the meeting place in this way is quite scientific, just like the reason why the concert hall has excellent acoustics, the hall is made into a rectangle. The Rus Duma ordered by Rurik is a similar construction model in any Rus city.

In fact, it is also like a teacher. Rurik can preach on the stage very freely, and he can also walk off the platform and talk while walking on the crosswalk in the center.

Each Viking tribe has its own parliamentary court. The Ross parliamentary court named “Russ Duma” is ingenious in structure and has all major cities, which is impossible for other tribes to do.

In the past, the people of Ross could only dress themselves with gray, white, black and brown leather. The love of beauty drove everyone to desire to have colorful clothes. In the past, they could not get them because of restrictions, but now they are all colorful.

The technology of Slavs weaving flowered cloth has spread, and the participants generally wear colored cloth robes, wrapped in leather clothes, with a large number of colored glass beads hanging on their bodies, and glass beads and amber are also hung on the velvet hats on their heads.

If such a person stood in a small city in Frank, he would definitely be regarded by the locals as a big rich man, and even lure the local lord to feel malicious.

Seeing that the people in his hometown are so rich, Rurik’s pride easily rushed to the top of his head, and he can proudly say that Ross’s success today is entirely due to himself.

But he also saw that many of the old friends sitting here are always gorgeous, and their decay cannot be concealed.

The heroes of the old age are getting old, but the heroes of the new era have not yet had plump feathers.

Ask yourself, it is obviously unwise to continue to launch foreign wars under such circumstances.

This is why Rurik decided to launch a crusade against the Karelians this year. His bottom line is that as long as the Karelians do not take the initiative to attack the principality’s northernmost stronghold on Lake Ladoga, Ross will Choose a conservative defense.

He stood in front of everyone. It was a relatively warm climate, but now the gathering of dozens of people in the house caused the room to heat up rapidly.

He took off his coat and showed others in only a long gown.

After half a year, the prince is still the man with the flowing golden ponytail. The 14-year-old prince obviously has muscular arms, but his figure is still thin.

The beard on his face is just like his father’s, and if he doesn’t take care of it, he will soon turn into golden cheeks, just like the legendary beast “Rhine” that only exists in the far south.

Rurik stood here and let them comment. He held his head high and looked proud. It was such a posture that everyone felt that he was an extremely confident prince.

He is so confident that he thinks that the immigration project will also usher in perfect results.

When the atmosphere finally settled down, Rurik unhurriedly opened the cloth bag, and took out a dozen sheets of paper with a lot of text inside.

He can preach without a script, but he is afraid that there may be mistakes in his words. It is obviously the best choice to write out the important clauses and read them out.

The lecture manuscripts were directly placed on the table, and he was also sitting on a square stool with his arms resting on the table in a relaxed state, as if a teacher was facing his students.

“Old friends in my hometown, please be quiet. How happy to celebrate until night, I will invite you to drink ale, eat barbecue and eat bread, and now you must listen to my preaching on immigration work. Because it is related to your life future!”

He was afraid that his words were not serious enough, so he deliberately repeated it three times. The so-called announcement today is not only related to the future of the Principality, but also to the future of everyone present.

When Rurik began to preach, everyone really straightened their backs and listened attentively. They were either joyful or nervous when they heard the key parts, and there was even a trace of regret.

On the stage, he observed everyone’s emotions, and their expressions were probably within his estimation.

Is Ross a free country?

Yes and no.

Anyone who joins Ross can actually choose to leave, but the situation is completely other ordinary people of the Viking family. After learning about the real living conditions of the Ross people, they squeezed their heads and wanted to come in.

No one would voluntarily give up their current life, unless they made a mistake and were expelled.

Now that they are in Rose’s community life, everyone must abide by Rose’s set of life rules.

Of course, Ross has a hierarchical system. The princely family and the elite family in the past were the upper core of the principality in the tribal era.

Today, the population of Ross is rapidly expanding, but all the old Ross people from the Ross tribe are naturally arranged by Rurik.

The old women basically arranged the work of tailors, doing rough processing of cloth and leather.

There are also elderly women working in soap processing.

The older men used to be tribal warriors. They should have died silently at home after getting old like in the past, or they should have come out stubbornly and finally sacrificed themselves to the sea.

Now Rurik employs them as official fishermen, as granary keeper, and as weapon repairer.

As for the children of Ross’s blood, their food was completely provided by Rurik.

And there are a large number of women who married into Ross’s prime and strong age. They actually don’t need much experience to raise children. They also take on many jobs that men do, such as fishing, logging, and mining. salary.

The core circle of the Principality of Ross is like this. Women, children, old and young are all managed by a system. Rurik can guarantee that they will not starve to death or freeze to death, but it is a luxury to suddenly become rich.

Using taxation, lower wages and other means, Rurik can get a lot of wealth, which is used for shipbuilding, construction, and especially the rations of more than 3,000 children.

The baby boom dreamed of by Rurik is still going on, and it will give the principality a strong national power in the future. Now, the more than 3,000 gluttonous mouths are also making the finances quite tight.

The number of children will only increase further, not to mention my own clansmen, let alone myself as an April bull. Once life becomes unprecedentedly stable, rich and hopeful, it is inevitable to desperately give birth.

After all, Roseburg is a narrow place, but for various reasons, the already overcrowded area is even more crowded.

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As a prince, he is desperately oppressing those people who have defected here. If things go on like this, it is not a good thing!

People from various Confederate tribes immigrated here with their families. Although there were not many of them, their enthusiasm for childbearing was no less than that of Ross’s own tribe.

Only the orphans whose children belonged to Ross’s family have been defined as “adopted” by Rurik can receive free meals, and the family members also get a stable source of income, which is a privilege that latecomers cannot enjoy.

In Rurik’s view, there are no real slaves in the principality, and he does not allow this. It is not because of his benevolence and selfishness, but because of Ross’s current economic situation. Holding slaves is a waste of the economy, and it is also a waste for the powerful to own slaves. Digging the corner of the prince’s power.

But there are actually “slaves” in the Principality.

The various Vikings who came from outside, the conquered Finns, and even the conquered Eastern Ilmen Slavs are all being economically exploited by the Ross capital, a group with a current population of less than 10,000.

Now that the principality is rising at a speed like an arrow flying from the string, wealth is being created at a high speed, and the life of the exploited is actually better than in the past, and internal conflicts can be ignored.

Therefore, the residents of Rosetown have reasons to leave Roseburg, where they have lived for nearly 80 years, to settle in the Wonderful East.

The preaching made by Rurik made arrangements for the various groups and major affairs that existed in Roseburg.

First: Harrow Zuosen will continue to serve as the governor of Roseburg, and his mediocre eldest son has no right to succeed in the future. The next governor is appointed as the young Kanuf.

Rurik intends to train this kid who is basically the same age as him. In a few years, this kid will have a bear-like physique. By then, Harrow Zuosen will die of old age, and the position of governor will still be in the hands of someone he trusts.

Rurik also particularly emphasized that only the prince himself has the right to appoint the governorship, and anyone who claims to be the governor is a traitor to the principality.

When the Great Immigration started, the Governor’s Mansion was moved to the old palace.

Second: The Great Temple will be relocated, and all the statues will be moved to Novosburg at the mouth of the Neva River.

Rus would build larger temples of stone and hardwood, and cast larger statues of the gods when the time came.

Hundreds of people can gather to kneel and pray in the temple, and there should be a square outside the temple, which can be used for building huge wooden towers during the great sacrifice.

Third: All the ordinary residents of Rose Headquarters relocated, took their belongings and children to the east, reunited with their husbands, and enjoyed their own farmland.

All widows whose husbands have died are also entitled to their own land in the name of the deceased husband.

Any man over the age of fifteen was entitled to a piece of land at the cost of leaving his family.

There is only one destination for this batch of immigrants, that is, near the warm Novgorod on Lake Ilmen.

Fourth: Ross natives engaged in leather processing business are entitled to a small piece of arable land, but must immigrate to New Roseburg and build a new leather processing workshop in the city.

All guest craftsmen engaged in related industries and new Ross leather makers who later joined the occupation can choose to immigrate to New Roseburg. Rurik’s principle recommends that everyone emigrate.

Fifth: The blacksmith union, especially the Clavasen family, cannot immigrate to the east, because there are no mountains in the eastern world, and there is a shortage of stones there, and there is no ore. Blacksmiths immigrating to the east cannot obtain nearby materials for smelting.

The future of Roseburg is to become a northern iron city of the Principality of Ross, and it will use the local iron ore and copper mines to continuously produce ironware.

As a result, the matching pottery workshops and charcoal burning workshops will not be relocated.

Sixth: The shipbuilding group represented by the Hotra family cannot give up the shipbuilding workshop in Roseburg, but must send young people to build two shipbuilding branches in Novorosburg and Novgorod, which is inland near the lake.

Seventh: The deer breeders, as servants of the prince, continue to breed reindeer in Fort Rose, pay the deer skins to the governor and the prince regularly every year as taxes, and send people to fight for the prince when there is a call-up order.

Eighth: Great businessman Gould must not immigrate to the East with his family.

The Gould family is in charge of all the principality’s trade with the west, and is also the most important dealer of Ross ironware, glassware, wine, northern leather, etc.

The white fox Snow Levadang inherits the main body of the big merchant family, mainly engaged in trade with Sweden.

The second son, Blue Fox, started a trade with Denmark, looking forward to a bright future.

These eight arrangements are the most important, and Rurik also made arrangements for many craftsmen, as well as other arrangements.

These arrangements are generally agreed by everyone, and it is obvious that Gould raised his mouth.

Gould was indeed old, and he even felt that his life was not long, so he openly questioned his close friend Rurik in Ross Dumar: “Why can’t my family manage the trade in the East? This is not appropriate! ”

Rurik naturally prevaricated with those words. Trafficking in ironware is an important means for the Principality of Ross to make money. The Gould family who was ordered to monopolize this has made many small businessmen extremely jealous. After all, this Gould was also a small businessman back then, but It is because of being supported by the prince that he has his current status.

“I still can’t figure it out. I’m dying of old age, and I have many sons who are eligible to go to the East!”

Rurik’s expression was rarely lowered: “Gould, I’ll tell you clearly! Don’t be too greedy! This is my order, you can’t ask for too much!”

Gould was really stunned. He was not afraid of Rurik himself, but the military and political power tied to Rurik.

He can only comfort himself, because this big immigration project is almost a great benefit to the local people of Ross, and his essence is a sojourner. Even if he entered the occupation early and was accepted, he is still a “New Ross” in essence.

If he only thought of this time, Gould would not be worthy of being an old fox.

He actually speculated that the root cause was because of that woman – Asraqi Haraldot.

Because Ross cannot have a single dominant businessman, multiple business families need to be controlled by the royal family.

Gould chose to keep his mouth shut, because he would lose a large part of his income from the leather trade because of the Great Immigration Project, and the Asuraki family, because of the relatives of the prince, would get rich from the leather trade and other industries.

He was really worried about his eldest son, Baihu, but considering his advanced age, the children’s careers depended on them!

At least the family can still control the privilege of ironware trade. After all, the prince has clearly described that there is no iron ore in the east, and the commercial families in the east can’t rely on this to make money.

[End of this Chapter]